Chris Evans deliberately muddles the roles of artist and patron, genius and muse. Evans will show two sculptural pieces Warm Hermaphrodite(2007) and Repeat Horizon(2007) both of which form visual motifs created by Evans in response to interviews with four elderly Italian politicians. All were asked about sacrifice and after a life in the public eye, on the choices they made. He will also show video piece The School of Improvement.
Deimantas Narkevičius will show his film Revisiting Solaris(2007). Trained as a sculptor Narkevicius has developed a practice, based on video and film that explores fascinating, problematic and overlooked passages of recent post-communist European history, including his personal history of living and working in Lithuania during the soviet era and after.
In Narkevičius' bleakly romantic short film, Revisiting Solaris, the actor Donatas Banionis appears in the role of Chris Kelvin more than forty years after Andrej Tarkovskij's Solaris was made. Revisiting Solaris is based on the last chapter of Stanislaw Lems' book. The protagonist, Chris Kelvin reflects on his brief visit on the "soil" of the planet Solaris shortly before his return from the space mission.
Alchemy(2007/8) is a series of works, by Suzanne Treister which transcribe front pages of international daily newspapers into alchemical drawings, reframing the world as a place animated by strange forces, powers and belief systems. These works redeploy the languages and intentions of alchemy: the transmutation of materials and essences and the revealed understanding of the world as a text, as a realm of powers and correspondences which, if properly understood, will allow man to take on transformative power.
In A Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions: Weapons, Warfare and Security(2008), Treister has drawn up a history documenting innovations of imaginary and fantastic military technology in a geometrical, Kabbalah-inspired drawing of jewel colours.
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